Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture

A blind spot tester.

Blind Spot

In monocular viewing there is a region in the peripheral visual field that is blind due to the absence of photoreceptors at the site where the optic nerve exits the eye. This region, like certain other blind spots, nonetheless appears filled in (Walls 1954). Ramachandran (1992a,b) has recently reported several novel demonstrations of filling-in at the blind spot. In this essay we critically ree...

Aesthetic Spiral for Design (

A planar spiral called Generalized Log Aesthetic Curve segment (GLAC) has been proposed using the curve synthesis process with two types of formulation; ρ-shift and κ-shift. Both methods were carried out by extending the formulation of Generalized Cornu Spiral (GCS) in a similar manner to the Log Aesthetic Curve (LAC). The family of GLAC comprises of planar curves of high quality such as GCS, L...

Design for Aesthetic Experience

Taiwanese government has been aggressively promoting culture creative industries in recent years. To achieve the goals of industry transformation and to better the living environment, it further propels the innovative concept of “creative life industry”. Demonstrating a new economy model, creative life industry intends to attain experience economy through attracting consumers with life aestheti...

The reductionist blind spot

How computational thinking resolves a problem in philosophy.